Mother! mother! you know not what you ask.

Frank! Frank! I do not want you with me.

This is a sterner matter than either of you fancy it to be; one that must be worked out, not with kind words, but with sharp shot and cold steel." "How ?" cried both together, aghast.
"I must pay my men, and pay my fellow-adventurers; and I must pay them with Spanish gold.

And what is more, I cannot, as a loyal subject of the queen's, go to the Spanish Main with a clear conscience on my own private quarrel, unless I do all the harm that my hand finds to do, by day and night, to her enemies, and the enemies of God." "What nobler knight-errantry ?" said Frank, cheerfully; but Mrs.Leigh shuddered.
"What! Frank too ?" she said, half to herself; but her sons knew what she meant.

Amyas's warlike life, honorable and righteous as she knew it to be, she had borne as a sad necessity: but that Frank as well should become "a man of blood," was more than her gentle heart could face at first sight.